Censys’ mission is to be the one place to understand everything on the internet. Frustrated by the lack of trustworthy Internet intelligence, we set out to create the industry’s most comprehensive, accurate, and up-to-date map of the Internet. Today, Censys delivers real-time Internet intelligence and actionable threat insights to global governments, over 50% of the Fortune 500, and leading threat intelligence providers worldwide.
Location:
This position is remote within the United States or Canada.
Role Summary:
We’re looking for a Senior Integrations Software Engineer to help build and evolve our next-generation Censys Platform. You’ll work closely with product and engineering teams building, deploying and maintaining scalable integrations between our Censys platform and third-party systems such as SIEMs, SOARs, and Threat Intelligence Platforms (TIPs). These integrations connect Censys Platform with critical security platforms, enriching attack surface data and delivering actionable insights directly into the tools practitioners and CISOs depend on for visibility, threat hunting and incident response. You will play a critical part in helping organizations, governments, and critical security providers of all shapes and sizes truly understand everything on the Internet and help make it a safer place.
What You’ll Do:
- Design, implement and maintain robust integrations between Censys Platform and third-party SOAR, SIEM, TIPs solutions
- Develop and operate scalable, high-availability API connectors
- Maintain and improve existing Censys open source APIs
- Write and maintain internal pipelines and IaC to manage the deployment of new and existing Censys-hosted integrations and services
- Design automated solutions for building, testing, monitoring, and deploying applications in a continuous integration environment
- Maintain a strong customer focus, prioritizing customer feature requests and helping define the integrations roadmap
- Stay current on emerging SOAR, SIEM, and TIP technologies to guide integration strategy
What You’ll Bring:
- 7+ years of software engineering experience, including 3+ years building and maintaining integrations or backend systems.
- Hands-on experience integrating with security platforms (e.g., Splunk, Cortex XSOAR, Anomali, Recorded Future).
- Deep understanding of API-first development and service integration patterns
- Proven ability to integrate multiple APIs into a unified platform with well-defined service contracts
- Strong proficiency in Golang or Python for backend services
- Expertise with REST/gRPC and service-oriented architecture
- Continuous drive to improve CI/CD processes and developer workflows
- Passion for writing clean, maintainable and scalable code
- Bias towards action and iterative approach to problem solving
- Ability to contribute thoughtfully to technical discussions and make data-driven decisions in a fast-paced environment
- Excellent communication and documentation skills — able to clearly explain complex technical concepts across engineering and non-engineering teams
What Sets You Apart:
- A cyber security engineering background
- Experience with multiple cloud providers, especially Google Cloud
- Proven success integrating with vendor marketplaces (e.g., AWS, Splunk)
- Familiarity with open-source security frameworks like Metasploit, recon-ng, nmap, Qualys, and Tenable
- Skilled in building, deploying, and maintaining containerized services in Kubernetes environments
- Background in distributed systems, observability, or data ingestion frameworks
- Experiencing in managing database migrations and architecting scalable data access patterns
- You understand the value of building maintainable software, while building new services you are ensuring test coverage is enforced by strong CI practices, adding linters and code complexity checks. You value clean abstraction, and promote established design patterns, but also know when to innovate beyond conventions
- Strong interest in harnessing AI and ML tools as a force multiplier - using it to code smarter, iterate faster boosting productivity and enhancing product capabilities
For high cost of living areas (San Francisco Bay, New York City, and Seattle), the expected salary range for this position is $180,000 USD - $212,000 USD, plus bonus eligibility and equity.
For all other locations, the expected salary range for this position is $153,000 USD - $180,000 USD, plus bonus eligibility and equity.
In addition to our great compensation package, our benefits are effective on day one and include but are not limited to: 401k match, health, vision, dental, and more! Please see our careers page for more details.
Our roots are in Ann Arbor, Michigan and our innovation is fueled by the team’s global perspectives. For this role, we are open to remote employees across the continental US or Canada.
Censys is an equal opportunity employer.
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